Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blinding, throbbing, lacerating pains of migraine headache, long a baffling problem to physicians, can now be controiled by injections of vitamin B 1 . This new treatment was discussed last week by Dr. Harold Dean Palmer of the Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases...
Doctors know little about migraine except that it runs in families, may be caused by many conditions, ranging from nervous excitement to allergy for certain foods, such as eggs or chocolate. The headaches may come on every day or once a year; Dr. Palmer himself suffered three attacks every week for many years. Characteristic symptom of migraine is violent, pulsating pain on one side of the head, caused by irritation of nerves of the blood vessels in the head. If a doctor examines the interior of his patient's eye with an ophthalmoscope during an attack, he can occasionally...
About five years ago, Dr. Palmer read about some British scientists who discovered that pigeons deprived of vitamin B I developed the symptoms of violent headaches, suffered severe pain on exposure to strong light, loud noise. The pigeon disease seemed so similar to human migraine that Dr. Palmer had a hunch his own headaches were caused by lack of B 1 . The vitamin deficiency, he believed, upset body metabolism, produced a poisoning of body tissues. Migraine, Dr. Palmer concluded, is only a symptom of this toxemia...
...treatment, Dr. Palmer injects large amounts of thiamin chloride (synthetic B 1 into his patients' muscles every day for four weeks, until they have had a huge quantity of the substance. After that, injections are given three times a week for a fortnight, then once or twice a week for several months. In addition, patients are given large amounts of capsules and syrup containing the other B vitamins (nicotinic acid and riboflavin), as well as vitamins...
Gaelen Felt, playing No. 1, won in straight games, but the No. 2 match was carried to four games before Tom Orr won it. Bill Frothingham and Dudley Palmer both took their matches without dropping a game, while No. 4 Harold Baker was carried to an extra contest. Tom Sears won the finale...